Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Part 2 of The South African Revolution Continues: First dismantling the
Racialist State and Now Dismantling the Capitalist State that Fostered
Apartheid
featuring
in this second of a two-part exclusive an expanded conversation with
Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of SAFTU, the South African
Federation of Trade Unions, and former General Secretary of
COSATU, the Coalition of South African Trade Unions.

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (âSAFTUâ) is the voice of the
workers in the struggle for a socialist society. It was formed by the National Union
of Metalworkers of South Africa, the largest union in South Africa, with more than
350,000 workers and numerous other unions, as an alternative to the Coalition of
South African Trade Unions, which has capitulated to state capital, including
defending the South African government's role in the Marikana massacre of 34
striking miners in August 2012. Cyril Ramaphosa who is currently the President
of South Africa was a member of the Board of Lonmin plc, formerly the mining
division of Lonrho plc, a British producer of platinum group metals operating in
the Bushveld Complex of South Africa, which owns the Marikana mine.

We asked SAFTU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi about the history of the
South African freedom struggle which overthrew apartheid, but left in place the
capitalist economic system, which has continued the exploitation of the working
class and fostered mass economic inequality, and whose corruption has been
rife under each of the successors to President Mandela. Vavi talks about these
issues and how the now Ramaphosa administration new developments are
reaching a crisis: mass unemployment; heightened inequality; and new
proposals restricting the rights of unions; and proposals that would gut minimum
wages. He also relates the upsurge amongst the masses, with youth in the
forefront of the protests was led to the general strike in April.
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